collection of more than 1,000 poems by 185 poets, the former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass mentions the 'small gap in my acquaintance with Greek poetry' between Callimachus and Cavafy--a gap of, well, more than 21 centuries. Greece can boast the longest continuous poetic tradition in European literature, by a very long chalk: from Homer (c700BC ?) to, in this case, Pavlina Pampoudi (born 1948).
from The Daily Telegraph: The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present ed by Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley and Karen Van Dyck: review
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